For the leader, the strategy is your map that shows where you are, where you want to be, and the path between the two. Tactical Leadership is the compass, a tool used by leaders to stay on target and keep the focus on the objective. Without your compass, it will be difficult to stay on the map, and nearly impossible to follow the desired path. In Tactical Leadership, you’ll learn practical tools and tactics for Leadership Focus, Leadership Process, and Leadership Practices. Leadership Focus Learn how to develop omni-directional leadership focus to enhance your influence in all directions. Great leaders influence not only their organizational subordinates but also their peers, customers, superiors and themselves. Leadership Process Dr. Thompson presents his Six Step Process for Effective Leadership that sets the framework for intentional influence, and he provides the Agile Tactical Adaptability™ model for gauging development levels, situational priority, and appropriate leadership styles. Become the Sensei that develops those around you into Black Belt performers. You’ll also learn critical tools for adapting to learning and communication styles of your audience and using questions to build knowledge and drive results. - The Agile Tactical Adaptability™ model provides the ability to gracefully assess a situation, rapidly draw conclusions, and decisively adapt or change your tactics to suit the situation. - Learning and communication styles to help you communicated more effectively. You can’t influence someone if you aren’t getting through to them. - A questioning methodology to help you efficiently gain needed information, drive conversations in a particular direction, or guide someone to discovering things on their own. Leadership Practices Having focus and developing a process is meaningless until you put it into action. Tactical Leadership presents eight critical Leadership Practices that every great leader exemplifies on a daily basis, and guides you through how to implement them: - Champion the Foundation - Cultivate the Vision Vector™ - Model the Mojo - Coach Performance - Build Unity Without Uniformity - Enable and Empower - Focus the Operation - Develop the Leader (in yourself, and in others) Make sure you have your compass handy, and you know how to use it to stay on course. Tactical Leadership provides practical leadership tools for everyday excellence